Skills Assessment

for National Adaptation Planning

April 2015

HOW COUNTRIES CAN IDENTIFY THE GAP

A SKILLS ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK

A SKILLS ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK

Special thanks to:

Conseil National de l’Environnement

pour un Développement Durable,

Government of Niger

UNDP Niger

A SKILLS ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK

Skills for …

WHAT?

A SKILLS ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK

Assess audience and needs

Design learning objectives, assessment method

Prepare content, mode of delivery

Deliver training, engage national institutions

Evaluate for changes in attitude, behaviours

THE NEED FOR A FRAMEWORK

All countries need to better understand and develop

individual skills to achieve their adaptation goals

More systematic and

tailored approaches to

skills development

are needed

ADAPTATION SKILLS-SETS

Technical Management Participatory

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CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK

Policy

Organisational

Operational

IMP

LEMEN

TATION

LEVELS

Source: NAP-GSP and GIZ (2015), Developing Capacities for National Adaptation Planning.

Institutional capacities

Institutional capacities

Institutional capacities

Individual skills

(participatory)

Individual skills

(technical)

Individual skills

(management)

INDIVIDUAL SKILLS AND INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITIES

Source: UNITAR (2015), Skills Assessment for National Adaptation Planning

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publicationIES

INDIVIDUAL SKILLS AND INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITIES

Source: UNITAR (2015), Skills Assessment for National Adaptation Planning

What capacities for adaptation

planning are you seeking to build?

CAPACITIES

USING THE SKILLS ASSESSMENT TOOL

A. Enhanced national

climate change

coordination

B. Ability to apply analytical

tools to adaptation

planning (V&A, CBA,

expenditure review)

1. Describe existing

skills available

2. Locate skills at

different institutional

levels

3. Identify gaps for skills

development

Capacities to build Steps to take

USING THE SKILLS ASSESSMENT TOOL

A. Enhanced national

climate change

coordination

…

Technical

Partc’ory Manage

ment

What Skills?

USING THE SKILLS ASSESSMENT TOOL

A. Enhanced national

climate change

coordination

…

Policy

Organst’l Operat’l

What Levels?

USING THE SKILLS ASSESSMENT TOOL

TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT PARTICIPATORY

POLICY

ORGANISATION

OPERATION

Objective: Skills development to enhance national climate change coordination

T1

M2

M1

P3

P4 P2 T2 M6

M7

T5

THE TOOLS

Appendix 2 of the publication …

TECHNICAL

T1. CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE AND POLICY

T2. CLIMATE CHANGE EDUCATION

T3. CLIMATE CHANGE MAINSTREAMING

MANAGEMENT

M1. STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP

M2. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

M3. VISIONING, CREATING, INSPIRING

PARTICIPATORY

P1. COORDINATION

P2. COMMUNICATION

P3. TEAM-BUILDING

THE NIGER EXPERIENCE: MAIN FINDINGS

“a cross

government cohort

of staff ready to

assume technical

and managerial

roles in CCA ..”

At policy level, abilities

needed to assess and

advocate for sector

implications of climate change

At organisational level,

coordination skills needed,

such as joint objective setting

and prioritisation

At operational level,

retaining personnel and HR

management

THE NIGER EXPERIENCE: MAIN FINDINGS

National skills development: Immediate (Yr 1)

TECHNICAL SKILLS MANAGEMENT SKILLS PARTICIPATORY SKILLS

T1 – climate change science and policy (basics) T5 – climate change economics and finance, modalities and access

M1 – leadership and negotiation for policy makers M4 – communication and advocacy for senior managers

P4 – speaking and presentating to groups, for managers and policy makers P10 – participatory planning and decision making, for managers

ENABLERS Detailed workflow analysis of current training activities in CCA Capacity development for national training institutions (instructional design) ToT programme on climate change fundamentals for CNEDD staff

THE NIGER EXPERIENCE: MAIN FINDINGS

What did we

learn? Skills assessment

framework complex to apply

in practice

Clarity on ‘skills for what’

reduces data collection

Importance of national

training institutions

INDIVIDUAL SKILLS AND INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITIES

Source: UNITAR (2015), Skills Assessment for National Adaptation Planning

What capacities for adaptation

planning are you seeking to build?

How specific can you be?

CAPACITIES

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